Hisao Toake
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 8, 1908
Place of Birth: Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Professional Killers
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Five Sisters
The story of five sisters.
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Filmography
as Tsujiya
as Shôzô Satomi
as Ipponmatsu
as Aso Jirō
as Saburo Kurusu
as Obayashi
as Executive B
as Matsumori Senior Vice President (Managing Director of "Printemps Cosmetics")
as Mr. Okamoro
as Enhachi
as 柳田教授
as Sakie's husband
as Jukichi Kanai
as President Kiyomura
as Kimizuka
as Sakaino
as Kusuhara
as Dr. Yamanaka
as Dr. Yamanaka
as Saeki
as Adachi
as Tanekichi Kuwata
as 芦谷梅二
as Imamura
as Senior Managing Director
as Taichiro Katsumoto
as Shudo Deguchi
as Ryozo Soga
as Kenryô Shirafuji
as Tsukagoshi
as Police Chief
as Principal Takeda
as Principal Takeda
as Shinya
as Scout
as Gôsuke Sakata
as Yamashita
as Shiomi
as Saijiro Akutsu
as 岩上孤雲
as Dr. Samejima
as 鶴田亀造
as Morinokoji
as Yamada
as Shingo no yuujin
as Osamu Hattori
as (uncredited)
as Mr. Miura
as Toichiro Amamiya
as Jewelry shop proprietor